Conflicts of Interest in Medical Oncology WEBINAR SERIES
“To Live Without Hope Is to Cease to Live” — Exploring the Role of Hope in Medical Oncology
Wednesday 5 November 2025, 6.30pm AEDT | Online
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We welcome you to join us for the Medical Ethics webinar series, this session’s topic of “To Live Without Hope Is to Cease to Live” — Exploring the Role of Hope in Medical Oncology'.
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The webinar will be hosted by Dr Sarah Heynemann, Deputy Chair, MOGA Medical Ethics Committee.
Please register, send through anonymous questions before the day, and volunteer your thoughts during the panel.
This webinar contributes towards the new RACP mandatory CPD requirements, where two activities are required on ethics and professional behaviour.
MOGA Medical Ethics Committee:
Ethical issues impact on all areas of our professional activities from dealings with industry, day to day patient care through to personal, professional views on complex issues such as voluntary assisted dying. The aim of this Sub-Committee is to improve outcomes for patients and clinicians through the application of ethical principles to oncology issues affecting clinical practice, research and education.
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Dr Tam Bui (Chair)
Prof Clare Delaney
Dr Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki
Dr Bridget Haire
Dr Sarah Heynemann (Deputy Chair)
Prof Michael Millward
Dr Sharon Nahm
Program:
6.30pm Welcome – Dr Sarah Heynemann (Deputy Chair)
6.35pm ADD
6.50pm ADD
7.05pm ADD
7.30pm Webinar close
Target Audience:
Medical oncologists, especially early career Young Oncologists and Advanced Trainees. Registration is open to MOGA members and non-members.
On completion of the webinar, participants can use the QR code to log this webinar as required CPD activities on ethics and professional behaviour.
Presenters/Panelists:
Prof Justin Oakley, Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University
Justin Oakley is Professor and Deputy Director of Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University. He is author of Morality and the Emotions (Routledge, 1993, 2020), and Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles (with Dean Cocking) (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and is editor of Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability: The ethics of report cards on surgeon performance (with Steve Clarke) (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Bioethics (Ashgate, 2009). Justin is Director of the Master of Bioethics course at Monash, and he has overall responsibility for ethics curriculum development in the Monash MD program. He is currently completing a book-length project on policy applications of virtue ethics in professional practice.
Dr Sarah Heynemann, MOGA Medical Ethics Committee Deputy Chair
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A/Prof Zarnie Lwin OAM, Medical Oncologist
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Dr Linda Sheahan, Palliative Care Physician
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Dr Abhiji Pal, Medical Oncologist
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